This voice was music to Ace's ears as he stood up. However, before he could take a step, an exhausted voice rang, "Fellow Brother, please wait!"
Ace had heard this voice when he was about to ascend the staircase; it belonged to the Atlas family young man named Klay.
He turned around and saw Klay and his sister Kaley coming toward him despite their extremely exhausted state. Their eyes were filled with reverence, and Kaley was even blushing and glancing at Ace with adoration.
"How may I help you?" Ace impassively asked.
Klay wasn't seemed as aloof as before, nor did he mind Ace's giving them the cold shoulder. He knew if it were him in Ace's shoes, he would do the same.
"I just want to congratulate you on our stunning achievement, and I hope we can be friends in the immortal lands. My name is Klay." Klay pulled an unnatural smile as he said those words. It was quite clear he wasn't good with speaking to others in such a friendly tone or putting himself below them.
However, Ace shook his head, "You and I are destined to be walked on different paths, so what is the meaning of being friends? I'm used to being alone, and I'm not planning to change that either. The name is White, though."
Ace merely stated the fact and turned around and walked away, leaving the dumbfounded Klay and Kaley rooted in their place. Even those two devils were baffled by Ace's cold attitude toward his own race.
Normally, the other races stuck together in the union, and they were very close with fellow race members.
But they all knew 'White' was telling the truth when he said about walking on a different path since Klay had barely managed to ascend the stairway while White had done in less than half a day.
Just the difference in talent was massive between them, and genius tends to stick with their own kind, and all of them had eccentric personalities.
"Hehe, how rare. Normally, it was the Atlas family that stood aloof among their own kind, and they only approached those they deemed worthy to stand beside them. Now, it seemed the tables have turned." The devil youth jeeringly remarked at this moment while walking past Klay and Kaley, with the female devil also snickering in disdain following him.
"Hmph, just a loser's words." Klay was not mad by Ace's cold attitude, but he would not let go of the devil.
The devil's youth expression fell instantly since it was the only sore spot in his heart right now, and Klay's words were like salt water.
Ace ignored those kids' quarrels and walked past the bright passage.
The moment he crossed the bright light, he found himself standing on an open mountain expansion. His attention was instantly drawn by two colossal mountains, and even he couldn't find their end.
Furthermore, those two mountains were golden and silver as rings of clouds surrounded their tops. It was like they were made out of gold and silver.
Then Ace noticed something extremely disturbing. He saw vague blackness behind those two mountains.
It was the same blackness one could see in the mortal domain, which was none other than the blackness ahead of the crystal lake and also from where Ace had come from.
'Don't tell me this entire place is surrounded by that same blackness? Didn't this mean I can't leave?' Ace's joyous mood to finally be able to enter the core area of the union plummeted when this thought appeared in his head.
Although the union was quite large, as large as a continent, it was surrounded by that strange blackness like a barrier, which made it no less than a prison.
Ace then looked at the golden sky, 'Should I try flying over? No, my wings won't even last until I reach the peak of that black wall. I need to gather more information. There has to be a way out.'
"Quite captivating, right?"
Ace was snapped out of his thoughts by this amiable voice and turned his head and finally noticed a ground of powerful beings looking at him with different kinds of light in their eyes.
Ace noticed fifteen of them were wearing purple robes. The only difference was that five of them were women with silver moon crests, while ten of them were men with golden sun crests.
However, the five figures, in particular, were giving off a terrifying feeling to Ace. At the same time, the reaming ten were completely inferior to them, but they posed an absolute threat to him as well.
'Those four should be law awareness realm cultivators while the ten are most likely quasi law awareness realm.' Ace guessed in his heart.
But he didn't dare to reveal his true thoughts in front of them. He looked at the tall crimson devil with fiery bat wings behind him. He was the one who had spoken to him before and was smiling amiably toward him.
He quickly bowed and respectfully stated, "Please forgive junior lack of manners, Lord Immortals!"
Ten of them present in this group were the group of invigilators, while the other four were High Elders from four different races. Devil, Demon, Hunter, Elf, and the last one was from the Magic Best Race.
Joseph and Willie's expressions were quite nasty at this moment since they got no response from their races' high elders, while these four came here almost instantly the moment they received the news about Ace from their races' elders.
If Willie knew this was going to happen, he would've never opened his big mouth and suggested alerting the High Elders at all.
Now, it was too late to cry as these five had already watched Ace's one month of cultivation history, and they had instantly become interested in him. As for them, they become side characters.
In front of a High Union Elder, a Union Elder couldn't show any disrespect, no matter the race difference. Even the fearless Willie didn't dare to open his mouth.
The black skin High Elder Demon who looked quite ghastly with his white eyes ball and white bullhorns, spoke with a smile, "No need to worry about formalities. Little guy, we are here to recruit you as a student. Are you interested?"